When Technology is Annoying...

Technology is all around us. In today’s world we rely on technology for practically everything. It keeps us up-to-date, provides simplified solutions at work, and allows us to connect to the world. With all these great factors, there are still many facets to this world of connectivity that are downright annoying! Let’s take a look at some areas where technology might have missed the mark…Pop-ups, Ad-Blocking and Ads and Broken Websites.

Pop-ups – Yes, they are still alive and kicking! If I come
across one more pop-up I might just go insane. Sure, we can utilize a
pop-up blocker to try and stop them, but which pop-up blocker should we
use? Do you think they work? Between Yahoo! Toolbar, Comcast Toolbar,
and Google Toolbar, it almost seems easier to let them fly up over my
web page!

Lucky for us, this review site provides more information on the
many options for pop-up blocking and toolbars that integrate with your
current browser:

Ad-Blocking and Ads – Are you ever on Facebook and find your
eyes constantly shifting to the right thanks to those annoying ads?
There’s just something wrong about those ads all over our websites.
While I know that sites like Google AdSense help the little guy, it all
seems like a sell-out in my book.

If you are looking for a powerful advert and pop-up blocker that works
well with ANY browser, why not check out Ad Muncher. If you’re a Mac
user, the OS X/Safari equivalent for ad blocking is a program called
"Saft", you can download it here.

Broken Web Sites – Nothing is more annoying and frustrating for
the end user than arriving at a site only to find it’s broken. They
waste time, energy and cause tons of extra clicks that we could use
elsewhere. There’s no excuse for a broken link, and if you should come
across one, it is certainly courteous to notify the site of the error.
While it’s bound to happen to even the best sites, if they are not made
aware, they cannot fix the situation.

Firefox has taken measures to be proactive about handling broken
websites. Their built-in utility reports a broken website and will
follow up with the site to see that the error is corrected. For more
information on their utility, check out the following link:

Here a user can report a broken web site to Firefox and they log it
accordingly. You might want to also contact the particular Webmaster of
the website that is broken as well and let them know.

If you are constantly coming across annoyances in your browsing worlds,
please share! I would love to hear from users what their Internet pet
peeves are and how they combat them. Hopefully the Internet will become
a much more user-friendly place in the future, especially as our world
continues to become more digital.